Lies of the land: painted maps in late medieval and early modern France

Abstract

"Explores how late medieval and early modern French painters pioneered a highly pictorial standard for cartography that was imbued with legibility and authority by drawing on their training to bring empirically observed detail, perspective, composition, and scale to their maps"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction : getting the lie of the land -- Sight maps/site maps : painters and local mapping -- The world as (luxury) object : Norman maps and atlases -- Palace décor(um) : the galerie des Cerfs at Fontainebleau -- Conclusion : eyeing the horizon.